Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 08:56:13 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CFT] New dialog for ports Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303170846130.8399@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20130314095529.GH53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20130314095529.GH53963@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On Thu, 14 Mar 2013, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Ilya A. Arkhipov wrote dialog4ports which has just been added into the ports > tree ports-mgmt/dialog4ports, this is intended to be a replacement for dialog(1) > designed specifically for the options, in particular for optionsng. My one complaint is that, last I looked, long option descriptions are not supported. We really need this. A maintainer should be concerned with clear option descriptions and not have to restrict their length at the cost of clarity. The user should not have to interpret short or cut-off option descriptions.
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